***** Description *****
This replication archive contains all data and code to replicate the main table
in "How Far Have European Political Parties Followed the Americans to the Right
in the Later Post-War Period? -- A Textual Analysis" by Ian Budge and Jonathan
Homola.



***** File Overview *****
** R scripts **
BudgeHomola_PartyMovements.R -- R script to generate the main results in Table 3.


** Data files **
BudgeHomola_PartyMovements_Data.dta -- The main dataset contains information on 
party and median voter positions (from the Manifesto project). This dataset is 
needed to create Table 3.



***** Additional Information *****
The following R package was used to produce the results:
1) foreign version 0.8-67


** Note **
The code in BudgeHomola_PartyMovements.R replicates Table 3 from the main text.
However, the time variable used ("time") has some small coding issues that are
based on the initial Stata file. A fixed time variable ("time2") is included and
can be used for the regressions instead. All substantive results remain the same
when using "time2".



***** References *****
Budge, Ian, and Jonathan Homola. 2012. "How Far Have European Political Parties 
Followed the Americans to the Right in the Later Post-War Period? A Textual 
Analysis." Cambio 2: 71-86.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/cambio-19435